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God's glowing covenant. - Hosea Ballou, MS. Sermons And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. - James Beattie, The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 30) Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. XLIII, v. 11-12) 'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 122) Faithful to its sacred page. Heaven stills rebuilds thy span. - Thomas Campbell Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky when storms prepare to part! - Thomas Campbell Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. - Thomas Campbell, To the Rainbow That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The smiling daughter of the storm. - Charles Caleb Colton Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold, But of a substance, though not animate, Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould, That only eyes of spirits might behold. - Giles Fletcher ("The Younger"), The Rainbow (l. 33) O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear. And, bending thee above, the angels draw near, And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here." - Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale, Poems God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas. - Ralph Hodgson, Three Poems (II) There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings. - John Keats (1), Lamia (pt. II, l. 231) Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky. - John Keble, Christian Year--(25th Sunday after Trinity)--On the Rainbow God's illumined promise. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Conspicuous with three listed colors gay, betokening peace from God, and covenant new. - John Milton A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight. - Old Rhyme, Old Weather Rhyme Born of the shower, and colored by the sun. - Jean Charles Prince What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto VI, st. 5) Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth. - William Shakespeare Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting. - Robert Southey, Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King--The Coming of Arthur (l. 401) Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky. - James Thomson (1) Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West, The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest; Frail in its date, eternal in its guise. - Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces--The Rainbow When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air; Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! - Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist") Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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